Regularly racking up so many streams it looks like someone fell asleep on the number bit of their keyboard, D4VD is well and truly breaking through.
Words: Abigail Firth.
Photos: Patrick Gunning.
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We’ve woken d4vd up. Currently on tour, it’s 10:47 in his time zone, but he normally rolls out of bed around midday, so he’s a little hazy. He’s no average teenager, though, and he’s often late out of bed because he’s stayed up into the early hours of the morning making music.
Practically the definition of bedroom pop, d4vd’s (real name David Burke) rapid ascent is the result of making music on his phone in his sister’s wardrobe in Houston, quickly catching the ear of labels and signing to Darkroom Records – home to Billie Eilish and Holly Humberstone – barely a year after his first release.
Initially just making music to soundtrack Fortnite montages he was posting on YouTube, the songs gained traction on their own, leading d4vd to switch career paths and move away from wanting to be a professional video game player to being a full-time musician. When ‘Romantic Homicide’, the melancholy emo-driven breakup track, went viral last summer, it …
